HMH Adjectives and to be

Adjectiives

Multiple Choice

What is an adjective?

• a person, place or thing

• a word used to describe a noun

An adjective is a word that gives information about a noun or pronoun.

​Example:

The forest has brown leaves.

What is a adjective?

Misha’s dog has seven puppies.

How many

John plays with the rubber ball.

What kind

An adjective can tell...

What color

I like the green lollipop the best.

Multiple Choice

Identify the 2 adjectives:

The new plane bumped when it flew through the fluffy cloud cover.

• bumped, plane

• new, fluffy

• cloud, plane

• cover, flew

Multiple Choice

Identify the 2 adjectives:

Some passengers have been traveling for several hours.

• passengers, hours

• traveling, several

• some, several

Multiple Choice

Identify the 2 adjectives:

After six hours, the blue plane landed.

• hours, plane

• six, blue

• six, landed

Adjectives part 2

​An adjective can follow the word it describes. This usually happens when an adjective follows a form of the verb be.

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Multiple Choice

Identify each adjective and the word that it describes:

The air was warm.

• The air

• was warm

• warm

• air

Multiple Choice

Identify each adjective and the word that it describes:

The plane was new.

• plane

• The plane

• was new

• new

Multiple Choice

Identify each adjective and the word that it describes:

I am excited to go on the plane.

• excited

• am excited

• go on

• the plane

Multiple Choice

Identify each adjective and the word that it describes:

The clouds are white and fluffy.

• The clouds

• are white and fluffy

• white

• fluffy